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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8912508" data-attributes="member: 58197">Indeed. From the discussions among the lawyers on this site, it sounded like defending a suit over the OGL would be much simpler than defending a suit over copyright infringement. (For example, apparently discovery -- one of the nastiest, hairiest parts of the process -- would be essentially nonexistent. Note that I am not a lawyer, I'm just paraphrasing what I heard the lawyers say, they could be wrong or I could have&nbsp; misunderstood them, do not bet your business on forum posts by Internet randos.)Keep in mind that it only gets tested if Wizards decides to file suit against someone. If all the big 3PPs extricate themselves from the OGL, leaving only a handful of little fish still relying on it, I can't see why Wizards would bother. At best, they get chump change in damages; at worst, the ruling goes against them and OGL 1.0a springs back to life; either way, it's another tidal wave of bad publicity and fan outrage.However, it sounds as if the VTTs are their real targets here. I'm not entirely clear on how the major VTTs incorporate the OGL, but if they can't easily extricate themselves, and Wizards remains bent on their (deeply stupid and self-destructive) strategy for D&amp;D, then we probably will see it tested in court.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8912508, member: 58197"] Indeed. From the discussions among the lawyers on this site, it sounded like defending a suit over the OGL would be much simpler than defending a suit over copyright infringement. (For example, apparently discovery -- one of the nastiest, hairiest parts of the process -- would be essentially nonexistent. Note that I am not a lawyer, I'm just paraphrasing what I heard the lawyers say, they could be wrong or I could have misunderstood them, do not bet your business on forum posts by Internet randos.) Keep in mind that it only gets tested if Wizards decides to file suit against someone. If all the big 3PPs extricate themselves from the OGL, leaving only a handful of little fish still relying on it, I can't see why Wizards would bother. At best, they get chump change in damages; at worst, the ruling goes against them and OGL 1.0a springs back to life; either way, it's another tidal wave of bad publicity and fan outrage. However, it sounds as if the VTTs are their real targets here. I'm not entirely clear on how the major VTTs incorporate the OGL, but if they can't easily extricate themselves, and Wizards remains bent on their (deeply stupid and self-destructive) strategy for D&D, then we probably [I]will[/I] see it tested in court. [/QUOTE]

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